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NEW YORK (AP) — Front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have scored solid wins in New York as expected. Clinton told supporters that the race for the Democratic nomination "is in the home stretch." Trump captured more than 50 percent of the vote in New York and claimed at least half of the state's 95 delegates at stake.
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Three people are expected to face criminal charges in connection with the lead contamination in Flint Michigan's public water system. That's according to officials familiar with the investigation. Charges expected to be announced Wednesday includr violating state drinking water laws.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court ruling could roll back recent state laws forbidding transgender people from using restrooms that don't match their birth gender. The Richmond, Virginia,-based appeals court, which also oversees North Carolina, overturned a policy that prohibited a 16-year-old transgender student from using the boys' restroom. The court says the restriction violates federal discrimination laws.
NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York police officer who shot an unarmed man to death in a darkened stairwell won't have to go to prison. A judge reduced Peter Liang's manslaughter conviction to a lesser charge in a case that became a flashpoint for police accountability. Liang was sentenced to five years' probation and 800 hours of community service in the 2014 shooting of Akai Gurley.
NEW YORK (AP) — Visa says it's improving its smart chip-embedded cards, which have been the source of grumbling from businesses and customers forced to wait for transactions to go through. The company says Quick Chip for EMV will let customers dip and remove cards, usually in two seconds or less, without waiting for purchases to be finalized. Though the wait can be just seconds, it's still a nuisance for high traffic retailers.
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